After releasing our biggest content update yet, we've had a few priority fixes and improvements we wanted to get out before we get started on our next adventures.

• Added post-game progress summary screen on game over
  
• Request reward and upgrade cost balanced for early game progression
  
• Balanced satisfaction excess event spawn rate
  
• Capped food modifier to ±5

• Fix for a loading crash when migrating from some older save files. If your game was getting stuck on the opening logo screen, you should be able to play again now.
  
• Fix for a game crash when placing buildings at certain orientations at the edge of the map.
  
• Prevent events from displaying on game over newspaper.

We want to send out our special thanks to Steam users Nuklearriese and Knox, who kindly alerted us to a migration crash, and the building placement issue - they were instrumental in tracking down the culprits!

As always, please let us know if you encounter any further issues and we'll get to fixing it as soon as we can, so join us on Discord[discord.com] where you can chat with us directly! Keen to hear any of your feedback!

Cheers,
The Caps Collective Team

Guild Co. has notified us of some changes you might notice around town. With major content updates and mechanical improvements from player feedback, there's just too much to mention it all, but we'll be giving it a go below!

Fresh off the press, the town paper has been working hard to find us the hottest scoops! With over 100 new articles, you'll encounter all manner of monsters, magical food reviews, and that loveable scoundrel, Gorath.

To catch you up on a few recent events:

• The travelling merchant business has been booming, and everyone from fortune tellers to genies have been getting in on the action, offering their mystical services... for the right price.
  
• Our scouts have heard reports of new enemy camps appearing on the outskirts of town. Necromantic nerds, helpful hiveminds, and viking houseparties are right at our doorstep.
  
• The guilds have started getting creative with their requests for favours. Test out their matter manipulators, prepare feasts, and harness chaos to get your hands on some nifty upgrades.
  
• Our editors have brought out the red marker, and we've done complete rewrites of all our old events with updated styling and magically enhanced humour.

You may notice a few new additions to the world, with new world questing locations having popped up across the map as new events may take you out to sea, off into the forests beyond or even deep below the mountains!

To help new or returning players get to running their best towns, we've included a quick start guide of most of the important mechanics in a new book tab.

Improved introduction to upgrades and requests at the beginning of new games.

We've added a toggle in the settings for red/green colourblind players. If you're colourblind and/or otherwise visually impaired, we would love to hear your feedback on how to make this as accessible as possible moving forward.

You can now quickly remind yourself of your unlocked adjacency bonus in the book, plus, if you do the Diviners a few favours, they might be willing to give you a new upgrade that highlights the grid for positions that will give adjacency bonuses.

• Major systems re-balancing, including adventurer spawn rate, wealth generation, event chances, and building cost scale
  
• Updated quest system, with both the adventurers and duration sliders now affecting the scaled cost
  
• Improved Card List in the reports page of the book to order cards by playable/ unlocked status
  
• Improved Notifications system, with more reminders and better visibility on the progress of your guild requests
  
• Included stat icons across the newspaper and tooltips
  
• A fancy new effect for the town stability bar
  
• 4k resolution support for our interface
  
• Added some new and tantalising achievements
  
• Various improvements, bug fixes, and wording updates from our fantastic community members over on our discord[discord.gg]. Thanks to everyone who has been reaching out!

This update has been quite the beast for us, and having finally slain it, the team rather eager to have it sliced, sautéed and served to upon our finest of platters as what we felt was a much needed second helping of our quirky, card-based fantasy satire. Originally this update was just a little optimisation work and some QoL improvements, but it snowballed through the year into a chaotic detour into the "major content update" territory.

To celebrate the milestone, we've gone ahead and put the game on its deepest discount yet for the next week, so be sure to pick it up during that week-long deal!

As we always say, thank you so much for your patience and support! Please let us know if you encounter any issues and we'll get to fixing it as soon as we can, so join us on Discord[discord.com] where you can chat with us directly! Keen to hear any of your feedback!

Cheers,
The Caps Collective Team

All done with a huge week down in Melbourne for PAX Aus, forcing our hand in getting a new patch out and into the world! This patch update adds a number of QoL features and a bunch of great bugs:

• Added save reset button to options menu
  We needed this one BADLY for running the PAX demo.
  
• Added new adventurers display in the newspaper each turn
  
• Added stat bump animation each turn
  
• Fixed up UI and tooltips to keep better track of adventurers

• Adventurers actually come back from quests now
  So this pretty massive issue may have been present since the game was released, but here we are quietly patching it now (don't worry, PAX gave the fix a pretty good workout last week).
  
• Fixed up building descriptions
  
• Green dots on upgrades tree set correctly
  
• Fixed tooltip info for base stat upgrades (i.e. food/housing/spending say +5 instead of +1)
  A special thank you to Illdiaze for noticing that one!
  
• Cursor doesnt remain invisible when switching to mouse from controller

Getting to meet a whole lot of old and new players face-to-face was incredibly energising and we're keen to get a lot more changes out over the coming months, starting with actioning the feedback we got from PAX. Stay tuned because we'll be doing another hot content injection soon along with some more features to match!

As we always say, thank you so much for your patience and support! Please let us know if you encounter any issues and we'll get to fixing it as soon as we can, so join us on Discord[discord.com] where you can chat with us directly! Keen to hear any of your feedback!

Cheers,
The Caps Collective Team

So as it turns out, FTRM was nominated for The Australian Game Developer Awards[agdas.com.au]' Excellence in Emerging Games category this year (yes, that feels super cool and weird to type out).

If you're at the event, please come grab us and give us a good shake to bring us back down to reality, but if you're comfy at home, please tune in and show your support for all these amazing Australian games and developers (plus we're also a little nervous about how weirdly legit this feels and could use a good 'attaboy or equivalent show of encouragement).

You can watch the awards online here: https://www.twitch.tv/igea_au
And definitely go check out the other finalists here: https://agdas.com.au/2022-finalists-announced/

Cheers,
The Caps Collective Team

After a disappointing cancellation in 2021, PAXAUS returns this year along with, for the first time, exclusively, Fantasy Town Regional Manager... IN-PERSON!

If you're at PAX that weekend, make sure to swing by and check out our booth in the Indie Rising section and play the game. The devs will also be there to chat about the game, dev, art, open-source, D&D... life and stuff?

PAXAUS will also be featuring an online stream with content about or from indie devs in some nondescript manner that will presumably be revealed to us at a later stage?

We may or may not also be running a secret competition to tell us about something dumb that happened in your TTRPG campaigns to put in the game in exchange for trinkets and game keys, but we'll see.

Cheers,
The Caps Collective Team

For all our fellow game devs, the Caps Collective team will be headed to GCAP22[gcap.com.au] in Melbourne!

Whether you're a student, looking for a fun side-project, or interested in open-source dev, come chat with us about what we do and how you can involved with the team on our upcoming projects.

If you want to book a meeting, just go ahead and book a meeting with us in the conference application and we'll sort something out.

Otherwise we're around all week until PAX and we'll be going to as many MIGW[gamesweek.melbourne] events as we can fit in!

Cheers,
The Caps Collective Team

Aaaand... we're back! What have we been up to lately? Aside from a lot of boring internal upgrades and bug fixes, we bring controller support, a new in-game stats page, and Steam trading cards! We've added a few other things along with a whole bunch of bug fixes, optimisation and QoL improvements so let's get into it:

• Full controller support: check the settings page of the menu for a list of control bindings
  
• Stats and secrets page tracker: find them in the reports page of the logbook for an in-game view of your progress and achievements
  
• Steam trading cards and community items: check out all the cool badges, emotes, and profile backgrounds we've cooked for them
  
• Additional tutorials: we've added two brand new sections to better explain quests and building unlocks/upgrades for new and returning players
  
• New achievements: we've added two new achievements for our favourite easter eggs in the game

• Massive engine upgrade to Unity 2021.3 alongside a switch to its Universal Render Pipeline
  Performance should increase across the board, but will be specifically noticeable on low-end devices
  
• Updated the design of fishing spots to give them a cartoony look that's more visible through the seasons
  
• Quests are now focused on the turn they initially spawn after closing the day's newspaper
  
• Added SSAO options to the settings menu
  
• Added keyboard controls to settings menu
  
• Upgraded adventurer rendering settings
  
• Fixed hard-lock issue on tutorial completion for some devices
  
• Fixed structure outline flickering on certain devices

Controller support has been on our radar for some time (and was even partially implemented in our last release), but it ended up taking a lot more energy and planning than once thought. We originally designed the game to be playable with mouse only, and while it was simple - the mouse gives you a lot of flexibility and assurances that a controller just didn't have.

It's taken a good few months to truly kick v2.1 out the door, but I can't stress this enough here: the engine/render pipeline upgrade was a huge effort and we are very proud of getting through that one with minimal disruption (although as you can tell we're already on patch #3 with all the little issues we've been fixing since initial release candidate). Thank you to everyone who's given the game a play-test this past month - we'd have nothing but a buggy mess right now without them.

As always, with deep sincerity, we want to thank everyone so much for their patience. If there's ever a question you have or a bug you run into we'd be hugely appreciative if you could send it our way so we can have it fixed up ASAP. Feel free to join us on Discord[discord.com] where you can chat with us directly; we're keen to hear any of your feedback!

Cheers,
The Caps Collective Team

Already at the second patch update of the year? Nice. We're working on the new features in the background at the moment but we felt like we should keep a steady stream of fixes for small issues and bugs as we work on larger changes in the background. This patch update addresses a minor bug, and improves on QoL:

• Invisible back to menu button active while menu is closed
  This may not have been experienced by anyone outside of the dev-team though.

• Updated codebase for delivering DRM-free builds
  And added a super sleek build pipeline for itch.io releases.
  
• Updated grid colours through autumn and winter to use a neutral shade
  This used to be green only, which looked kind of wrong through the latter seasons.

Progress on new features is currently slow but we're building up momentum as we lean into the year. In other news, we've finally launched the game for sale on itch.io, so head over there to get yourselves a DRM-free copy of the game. You should be able to continue between Steam and DRM-free versions of the game seamlessly.

As always, thanks everyone so much for your patience and if you see something, say something. We'll get to fixing it as so as we can, so join us on Discord[discord.com] where you can chat with us directly! Keen to hear any of your feedback!

Cheers,
The Caps Collective Team

New year, new patch update! This patch update resolves some minor bugs, improves some visuals, and addresses some QoL issues:

• Camera control not framerate independant for keyboard and controller input

• Made birds fly at varying heights
  
• Added preparatory changes to outlines for upcoming updates
  
• Performed MASSIVE refactor to codebase structure and file content
  This is in preparation for upcoming updates that we're keen to start working on.

As always, thanks everyone so much for your patience and if you see something, say something. We'll get to fixing it as so as we can, so join us on Discord[discord.com] where you can chat with us directly! Keen to hear any of your feedback!

Cheers,
The Caps Collective Team